Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

4. In going away, they will remember for what it was that they refused this happiness; that it was only for the satisfaction of some foolish and unprofitable lust: If two Kingdoms of equal worth and glory were proposed to a Mans choice, it would not trouble him that he had refused the one, to obtain the other; but if a Man were to choose whether he would be a King or a slave; if he should refuse ⟨p. 125⟩the former, and choose the later, when he came to feel the misery of his bondage, this would trouble him, more than the bondage, that he might have avoided it, that he hath chose this thraldom, and parted with a Kingdom for it: they will then perceive that they have chosen to be slaves unto sin, and Satan, rather than to be Heirs unto the Kingdom of Glory; I know that though now they are slaves, and serve divers lusts, and though their bondage is a thousand fold worse, than if they were Vassals to the cruellest Tyrant upon Earth; yet they are not sensible, neither are they weary of their bondage; because their wills are in thraldom, and their affections are captivated; and though heirdom to the glory of Heaven, be the choicest privilege upon Earth, and most desirable; yet they do not desire it, but prefer their slavery before it; because they are blind, unbelieving, besotted sinners, and judge of things according to sense; yet on the day of Christs appearance, all things will appear with a new face, and they will look upon things with a new eye; they will then perceive that they were slaves all their days; and that there was no such drudgery as that which they were employed in; and that there was no such glory and happiness, as that which they refused, and foolishly cast away; then it will sting them indeed to remember that they have chosen rather to do the work of the Devil, and yield obedience to the basest lusts, for which they must now be repaid with the wages of death and eternal misery, than to do the work of the Lord, who would have rewarded them with eternal life, and a Crown of glory and immortality. Then they will say, What profit have we got by ⟨p. 126⟩those things, whereof we are now ashamed! What fruit doth all our labour and toil in the World now yield unto us?

4. In going away, they will remember for what it was that they refused this happiness; that it was only for the satisfaction of some foolish and unprofitable lust: If two Kingdomes of equal worth and glory were proposed to a Mans choice, it would not trouble him that he had refused the one, to obtain the other; but if a Man were to chuse whether he would be a King or a slave; if he should refuse